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Another fat divi rolls in and is duly reinvested. Phoenix the gift that keeps on giving. This should be a more popular play that it would seem to be at present. Far better than risking it all daydreaming about getting rich quick buying AIM shares like UKOG and SXX.

Sorry but anyone who revealed the brutality of Robert Mugabe towards his own people, exposed Roy Meadows for the fraud he was as a so called "expert witness" in the Sally Field trial, had a go at the Barclay Brothers (how sinister are those freaks!) and called out Scientology for the controlling and dangerous pseudo-religious cult that it really is gets my vote over journalists at the Sun any day of the week.

I think that conflating the Sun and the BBC is taking it a bit too far matey. While I may not agree with the tone of all of the BBC news coverage I do not think they have ever plumbed the depths that the Sun has frequently descended to. Ask the inhabitants of Liverpool and they will set you straight.

PS: no need to shout dear boy.

Fraid AA Milne passed me by, ditto Beatrice Potter. More of an Arthur Ransome/CS Forrester/WE John's fan as a kid. Reading the former was considered a bit girly in our neck of the woods. For humour you cannot beat the Molesworth quartet (Searle/Willans)

A bit rich calling other people dim when you are mixing up your pre-decimal currency and imperial weights and measures?

Can this despicable excuse for a Newspaper sink any lower than this? I would not even use it as toilet paper, but I sincerely hope that those people who choose to read it now decide that enough is enough and boycott it.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cricket/49726913

Possibly yes, but Conn has dug Centrica into a hole so deep that it will take a lot more than playing around at the fringes of their core activity to turn it around.

In short no, just PR spin. If he cannot get Hive to generate significant income then I doubt a glorified energy consultancy will plug the profits gap here. Credibility is all and currently that is a commodity in very short supply at Centrica HQ.

I got out of Centrica for exactly the same reason that SSE have offloaded their retail business and was about to do the same with SSE until the OVO news hit. Mr Market obviously likes this and it has taken a great deal of regulatory and political pressure off the company. Absolutely delighted and will now hold.

In truth SXX have been royally shafted by a government too preoccupied with self preservation and the doctrine of Brexit to pay any attention to owt else. Good luck to Boris in the Northern seats he hopes to gain from Labour. Northern Powerhouse my a**e!

I see no scenario, deal or no deal, which will result in anything else but economic stagnation (at best) or recession (at worst). As the LLoys's SP is tightly linked to the UK economy then as an investment opportunity you are looking at dead money for the next 3-5 years. Simples. Buy Unilever, Astra Zeneca, GSK or even Rolls Royce and avoid anything which earns its crust in the UK alone.

Don't know where you guys are living and eating out in Spain but it sounds more like Wetherspoons than the any one of a hundred places I can dine out handsomely round my gaff for about 10-12 Euro and that includes a bottle of wine. I have now trained my local butcher up and can get him to produce a very acceptable french-trimmed rack of lamb too!

The Norge Bank RNS is a decrease in the size of their holding falling below the 3% reporting threshold due to them having loaned out 0.1% of RMG to a shorter. It is not good news and cannot be responsible for todays rise. In fact I am surprised that news of the impending strike ballot has not caused this to tank.

Do not underestimate the extent to which the "free money" liberated by the ongoing PPI claims culture has been propping up consumer spending on cars and other big ticket items. The August the 29th deadline may be good news for LLOY on an individual share basis, but may also pull the rug from under consumer confidence and thus put a large dent in the wider economy.

The market close must overlap with the USA markets as it does at present. How else are the zombie herd going to know whether to buy or sell based on US sentiment ie. Trumps latest brainless tweet?

Keep an eye of the Short position reporting over the next few days. I think the CWU announcement may have provoked an increase in an existing short position first thing or a new entrant. We will know in a couple of days time.

No that was most likely a sale at the opening price of 198.55 and it was delayed in reporting as it would have shifted the market unduly if shown up in real time. They are allowed to do this for "sensitive" ie. very large trades.

It does not take a genius to work out that the run up to Xmas is the optimum time for the CWU to threaten RMG management with industrial action as this is the time period when the majority of the revenue comes in, so maximum leverage. Let us hope it is just sabre rattling and that things will settle down quickly. If they do not and there is talk of strike ballots then we will see a rapid decline in the SP irrespective of underlying value given that market sentiment is a very fragile at the moment.

I sincerely hope this is not bought out. If AZN were to go you may as well kiss goodbye to the FTSE100 and the credibility of an independent British Pharma industry. I prefer to keep taking the income and watch Soriat's growth strategy evolve thanks,